Death Attributed To Pelvic Fracture

June 7, 1985|By Renee Krause, Staff writer

Lena Crapott, 79, whom authorities believed had suffered heat stroke during a record heat wave in South Florida, died Wednesday of a fractured pelvis, according to the Broward County Medical Examiner`s Office.

Crapott had a 108-degree fever when she was brought to Memorial Hospital in Hollywood on Tuesday. Her husband, Eugene, said the air conditioner in the couple`s mobile home in the 4800 block of Southwest 30th Way in unincorporated Broward County was not working.

Steven Cory, an investigator for the Medical Examiner`s Office, said authorities have not yet determined exactly how the elderly woman suffered her injury.